RESEARCHERS USING THE DATA
Planning Tool to Provide Evidence of Progress Toward Equitable Teacher Distribution The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
Laura Goe, Ph.D.
ETS
2006
This is a draft document intended to assist states in thinking about how teacher qualifications and characteristics can be used to distribute teachers in schools and classrooms. It also provides guidance for states as they document progress in the equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers.
Careers in Motion: A Longitudinal Retention Study of Role Changing Patterns Among Urban Educators
Karen Hunter Quartz, Kimberly Barraza Lyons, Katherine Masyn, Brad Olsen, Lauren Anderson, Andrew Thomas, Joanna Goode, Eileen Lai Horng
2005
Utilizing data from a six-year longitudinal study of over a thousand highly qualified urban educators in their first through ninth career year, this paper extends existing retention research to include a new category of career movement – role changing.
Effects of Teacher Qualifications on Student Achievement in Middle School Mathematics in Texas
Celeste Alexander - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Ed Fuller - The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Educational Administration
2005
The authors of this study advocate that by understanding how teacher qualifications are most strongly related to student performance, policymakers can make informed decisions about how to improve student achievement. By using student-level data from a system aligned around one-set of standards, the authors help policymakers to look at education funding, teacher preparation, and teacher certification issues in a practical way.
Biggs’ Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) Taxonomy
Teaching and Educational Development Institute
This report explains the Structured of the Observed Learning Outcome, (SOLO), which provides a systematic way of describing how a learner’s performance grows in complexity when mastering many tasks, particularly the sort of tasks undertaken in school.
2005 Illinois Public Colleges Teacher Graduate Survey Overview and Results: Aggregate Findings for the Twelve Illinois Public Colleges of Education
The Illinois Association of Deans of the Public Colleges of Education & The Illinois Teacher Data Warehouse
2005
Information gathered about the achievement of teachers in their first year of instruction provides important feedback used for teacher education program improvement. This report is an assessment of first year teachers directly following graduation from one of the twelve public colleges of education in Illinois.
The Draw of Home: How teachers preference for proximity disadvantage urban schools
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff
2005
This paper investigates the spatial geography of the teacher labor market and the implications of teachers’ preference for proximity for urban schools, teacher recruitment and teacher preparation policies.
Key Attributes of State Data Systems That Allow for Sophisticated Research on Teachers
Dan Goldhaber
Center for Teaching Quality
2005
Analyses of state-level data can provide information that helps policymakers make good decisions and better allocate scarce resources to enable practitioners to improve student achievement. The ability to link individual students to their specific teachers has led to numerous insights into the value of various educational interventions, and revealed the key importance of teacher quality as a determining factor in student learning.
What Large-Scale, Survey Research Tells Us About Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: Insights From the Prospects Study of Elementary Schools
Brian Rowan, Richard Correnti, Robert J. Miller
Teacher College Record
2002
This paper is about conceptual and methodological issues that arise when educational researchers use data from large-scale, survey research studies to investigate teacher effects on student achievement.